Labial salivary gland biopsy (LSGB) is a minimally invasive and safe surgical procedure performed in the diagnosis and monitoring of selected diseases such as Sjögren’s syndrome (SS), sarcoidosis, and ...

The lacrimal and third eyelid superficial glands produce the aqueous component of the preocular tear film. In this research, morphologic and morphometric assessments of the parenchyma and stroma of ...

Salivary Infection: Causes The most common causes of acute salivary gland infections are bacteria, especially Staphylococcus aureus, or staph. Viruses and fungi can also cause infection in the glands.

Figure 1. The instrument. The mesodissection instrument is essentially a modified tissue milling machine comprised of a joystick-driven X-Y slide stage (A), a digital microscope (B) looking up ...

Dissection of specific Areas Of Interest (AOIs) directly from slide-mounted tissue sections is commonly used to enrich for cell types of interest for further molecular analysis. Most clinical labs ...

Salivary gland inflammation is caused by salivary duct obstruction due to lithiasis or salivary duct stricture. 1 Acute suppurative sialadenitis is commonly infectious and is characterized by a ...